Aims and Outcomes

Aims

• To build creative capacity in Canadian arts and learning.
• To strengthen bridges between all interested stakeholders.

Outcomes

• discuss and identify guiding principles that lead to specific actions in all four areas of the Symposium.
• articulate an informed, inclusive relationship between artists and teachers in arts education.
• facilitate an inclusive informal pan-Canadian national network of all interested in arts learning.
• articulate accepted components for teacher education in all the arts.
• promote partnerships among teachers, artists, community organizations, concerned institutions, arts funders and others.
• promote a national centre of research or information about arts learning across Canada that is a clearing house available to all.
• promote an ongoing web-site forum of dialogue about all national issues that will continue beyond the account set up for the Symposium itself.
• make recommendations to feed into the agenda of the next international arts education conference.